Amazon Severs Ties With Top Lobbying Firms in Washington
- Akin Gump and Patton Boggs said to have been fired last week
- New Amazon hires in Washington include Brathwaite and Holly
The Amazon.com logo is displayed outside the company's fulfillment center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
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Amazon.com Inc. cut ties with Washington’s biggest lobbying firm and brought on new advisers following passage of the tax overhaul bill last year and in the face of new challenges in the age of President Donald Trump.
The shakeup occurred last Friday, a week before Trump briefly sent Amazon’s stock tumbling with a Twitter attack on the world’s largest online retailer. Trump charged that Amazon doesn’t pay enough in state and local sales taxes, hurts retailers and gets an unfair edge on the back of the U.S. Postal Service.